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semilugens, Z., and Laverna definitella, Z., from Custer Co. specimens ; both of them 

 new to my Colorado list. — T. D. A. Cockeeell, West Cliff, Custer Co., Colorado : 

 December 28th, 1888. 



Authentication of Hercostomus germanus as a British species. — Mr. Gr. H. 

 Verrall, in his last year's " List of British Diptera," cites Hercostomus germanus, W., 

 as one of the species reputed to be British and needing verification as such. It was 

 plentiful last summer near Higher Shepton, in a road-cutting on the way to Bruton, 

 facing Strutter's Hill, but is, apparently, a local fly in this neighbourhood. — 

 A. E. Eaton, Shepton Montague Vicarage, Castle Cary, Somersetshire : Jan. 7th, 1889. 



PhancBus lug ens. — An unfortunate misprint occurs in the description of Phancsus 

 lugens in your last number of the Ent. Mo. Mag. On page 179, two lines from the 

 bottom of the page, at the end of the line, the word " arenatim " has been printed 

 for " arcuatim." — B. Gr. Nevinson, 6, Tite Street, S.W. : January, 1889. 



Sipalia teslacea at Plymouth. — In the November number of this Magazine, 

 Mr. Geo. C. Champion recorded the capture of Sipalia testacea at Sandown, Isle of 

 Wight, and suggested that "it is doubtless to be found all along our southern coast, 

 if looked for in its proper habitat." I have considered, therefore, that it will not 

 be uninteresting to announce that I discovered three specimens of the insect at 

 Plymouth in March of the same year, but was not aware of the fact until the Rev. 

 Canon Eowler kindly named them for me, when sent to him some months after- 

 wards. In November, I took four more examples ; I have not had time to search 

 diligently, but inasmuch as these seven specimens are the result of several excursions 

 in quest of them, I do not think that the species occurs plentifully here. Mr. 

 Champion also refers to Aepus marinus and Pobinii, which, he says, he has not 

 taken in company at Sandown. Both species are abundant in respective colonies at 

 intervals along a beach in this neighbourhood ; but, contrary to that gentleman's 

 experience, I have found them associated. The proportion of the one species to the 

 other, however, has been so unequal that it is improbable that their mingling is 

 other than accidental. 



Altogether, I have registered in my note book 320 specimens of Aepus, the 

 aggregate of seventeen catches, but on five occasions only have I found the two 

 species in association, and on these the species in minority have been represented by 

 one or, at most, by two examples. — James H. Keys, 8, Princess Street, Plymouth : 

 January, 1889. 



Neuroptera, Trichoptera, and Orthoptera at Deal and neighbourhood. — During 

 a three weeks' stay at Deal, from August 11th to September 1st last, beside 

 Lepidoptera, I collected such species of Neuroptera, Trichoptera, and Orthoptera 

 as came in my way. Like your correspondent, Mr. C. Gr. Hall (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 xxv, 163), I was much surprised at the few species of dragon-flies for so promising 

 a locality. 



Netjeopteea : Sympetrum striolatum, abundant ; S. jlaveolum, one specimen 

 on the broad ditch near the far Battery on the Deal side of the sandhills ; Mschna 



